Washing-machine



(No Model.)

Patented Feb. 15, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES W. TURNER, JRI, OF MERIDEN, KANSAS.

WASHING- MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 357,744, dated February 15,

Application filed September 13,1886. Serial No. 212,601. (No model.)

and has for its object to produce a machine of simple and cheap construction for use in connection with an ordinary wash-tub, wherein,

the clothes are washed by the continuous forcing of water through them, and wherein, also, they are subjected to little friction, and consequently but slight wear.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my washing-machine with one side thereof partially broken away, and Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section thereof. Fig. 3 is a plan view of a modified form of dasher.

The side pieces, 1 and 2, of my washing-machine, which is adapted for use in connection with a tub, are provided each with a central vertical slot, 3, cut therein from a point about an inch and a half from the bottom to about half the height of said sides. The tops of the said side pieces, 1 and 2,at the ends thereof, are beveled to receive downwardly-inclined end pieces, 4 and 5, whose lower edges, 6, are made convex to conform to the inner side contour of the tub 20, (shown in dottedlines, Fig. 2,) and the outer edges, 7, of the said side pieces, 1 and 2, are also beveled for the same purpose. A transverse beam, 8, is usually employed as an additional support for the inclined end pieces, 4 and 5, and an extra brace for the side pieces of the machine. The ends and upper center portion of the said machine are left entirely uncovered.

The two cross-bars 9 and 10, secured mid way the inclined end pieces, 4. and 5, in any approved manner adapted to project upward therefrom and unite at an angle over the center of the machine, are provided at their intersection with a bearing, 11, preferably of metal, purposed to receive a U-shaped bar,

ends 13.

The dasher 14, used in connection with my machine, is usually constructed with an under rectangular flat-faced board, 15, provided with central side pivot-pins, 16, adapted to engage the vertical slots 3 of the side pieces, 1 and 2, and an upper rectangularboard, 17, the ends of which are beveled downwardly and made to extend beyond the ends of said under board, 15, to which it is attached.

In Fig. 3 a modification of the dasher is shown, the under board, 15, being provided upon the top with a series of slats, 18, attached thereto. Figs. 1 and 2 I, however, preferably use.

The dasher is operated by means of uprights 19, secured thereto at right andleft of the center, adapted to extend vertically upward a convenient distance upon each side and above the inclined beams 9 and 10, where they are united by handle 20. The motion of the said dasher is controlled by the engagement with the inner faces of said standards 19 of the horizontal ends 18 of the U-shaped bar 12.

In the operation of my washing-machine, as the handle is moved to one side, the U-bar imparts to it a circular upward movement, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 2. The dasher while being lifted in a vertical plane, through the engagement of the pins 16 with the slots 3, is tipped at an angle in opposite direction to the handle, and as the handle is brought forward the dasher gradually assumes a horizontal position, and with a rocking motion, as the said handle passes the center, again rises in a vertical plane to assume a reverse angular position, and so on, until brought finally to rest, as also shown in dotted lines, Fig. 2. movement of the dasher the water is forced downwardly and outwardly upon each side,

necessary, as the operator in working the ma- 12, having horizontal outwardly-projecting The form of dasher shown in By this and the continuous forcing ofthe water throughchine will naturally bear down upon the han-' dle, which serves to hold the machine in place and impart sufficient pressure to the clothes.

A Wringer canconveniently be used upon the side of the tub opposite the sides of the machine.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a washing-machine, the combination, with the side pieces, 1 and 2, provided with vertical slots 3, inclined end pieces, 4 and 5, and the united inclined beams 9 and 10, of the U-bar 12 and the standards 19, provided with handle 21, together with the rectangular dasher 14, provided with side pins, 16, sub stantially as shown and described and for the purpose herein set forth.

CHARLES W. TURNER, JR.

Witnesses: N. A. BRYAN,

L. A. SHARRARD. 

